Les Rosiers

Les Rosiers is a wine assembled from all the young vines in the Jasnières appellation.

APPELLATION:
- Jasnières. White wine, dry to medium dry (see info per vintage)
GRAPE VARIETY:
- Chenin 100%. Vines aged under 50 years.
SOIL (TERROIR):
- Clay with flint on tuffeau (limestone). 4 different soils in 2 parishes depending on the types of clay and the proportion of the complex clays / clay-flint.
VITICULTURE:
- Ground works : ploughing, earthing-up and hoeing. No weed killers.
- Maximum yields 25 to 35 hl/ha. Manual harvest.
VINIFICATION:
- Natural fermentation in 1-3 year old barrels with a small proportion (1/4) of new oak. Maturing one year. The final balance is the work of nature: 6 gr./L of natural residual sugar in 2002.
TASTING:
- 2004 : Represents ten year old vines from that once-fabled appellation, but you would never guess this to taste it. Peach, quince, and lily-of-the-valley seduce the nose, and a lovely creaminess and delicacy on the palate perfectly match this wine's character of a floral inhalation with rarefied pit fruit essences. Smooth, substancial and glossy, this lingers caresssingly and delicately yet with formidable concentration of fruit and flowers.
93 /100 - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate #172
SERVICE:
- Wine for ageing.
- Open 30 minutes before serving at 13-15°C.
- Goes with: white fish, anglerfish, emperor fish.
See also: maturity period and food matches